Scouting, Volume 30, Number 1, January 1942 Page: 26
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Youth, Camping
and A Way of Life
By, 2>. ottasUma+t
Minneapolis, Minnesota
They say that "eternal vigi-
lance is the price of freedom";
that "Liberty is a privilege to
be fought for by each succeeding
generation"; that "We can main-
tain our way of life, in this age,
only through toil and struggle and
sacrifice and prayer." But, a man
does not remain eternally vigilant,
nor does he toil and struggle and
sacrifice and die — if need be —
for a way of life unless he has an
unbounded faith in that way of
life. And no man can have that
kind of faith who has not lived
that life hour by hour, day by day,
until it has become a very part of
him.
They say too, that only a strong
people having this faith in their
way of life will survive this crisis
through which the world is pass-
ing. If this be true, then it will
take an even stronger people with
an even deeper faith to survive
the misery, the unhappiness, the
chaos, the carnage which is to
follow.
It is an oft repeated axiom that
the lad of twelve today will guide
America's destiny tomorrow. Ten
years from now that lad of twelve
will reap the harvest of this holo-
caust through which we live. He
must set the world aright and
build anew in the dark decades
which are to come. Will he pre-
serve our way of life? If so, where
shall he gain his experience in
democratic living? How shall he
come to know our faith? What
shall be his inspiration?
Listen. There is a heritage that
has made America great. It is the
nearneso of her people to the out
of doors. For generations we have
been a people whose strength has
come from the good brown earth,
the running stream, the wooded
This talk, made before a camp
leaders' roundup, sounds a
note of courage and resolution
for a troubled new year.
hill. This country was pioneered,
and the wilderness conquered, and
a nation made great by little com-
munities of people in the open
country: communities where men
were free to work out their own
destiny; and yet where each man
felt a responsibility for the wel-
fare of the group.
Here in these little crossroads
American communities was first
established the principle of equal
opportunity; here was first discov-
ered the principle that the priv-
ileges of a democracy must be
earned through participating citi-
zenship; here was wrought out the
American way.
We, in Scouting, talk much of
the virtues of "learning by doing."
What better way is there for the
men of tomorrow to come to know
a faith in our way of life than
through experiencing it in their
youth? Certainly no organization
in all America is better equipped
to prove the case for the Ameri-
can way than are we.
Is there not a particular sig-
nificance in the great similarity
between a Scout Troop on an out-
ing and these little crossroads
American communities in which
was wrought out the way of life
we hold so dear? Here in camp, is
a community of boy citizens de-
pendent on the outside world for
its source of supply but sufficient
unto itself in adapting those sup-
plies to meet its own needs — a
community that sets up its own
standards of conduct through the
government of its chosen boy lead-
ers — a community that is its own
source of amusement and recrea-
tion — a community that knows
its successes, its failures, its crises
to be met, its privileges to be won.
And that Green Bar Council —
how like an American town coun-
cil it is with its problems of food,
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